Wanna Buy A Lot? Basd Selling 3 Tracts

July 24, 1986|The Morning Call

Three vacant lots are being offered for sale as the Bethlehem Area School District continues its policy of shedding itself of surplus property to pick up some cash and get the land back on the tax rolls.

The school board has appraised and is offering for sale through competitive bids two lots in Fountain Hill and one on Bethlehem's South Side. The lot in the city is in the 1200 block of E. 5th Street. It measures 120 by 120 feet.

The Fountain Hill properties are a rectangular lot at Church Street and Diehl Avenue that measures 30 by 120 feet and an irregular lot on Logan Street. The latter's dimensions are 75 by 190 by 92 by 147 feet.

While authorizing the solicitation of bids on these lots, the board onJune 16 also took preliminary steps to sell two more tracts. One is a 2.4-acre parcel that wraps around the northeast corner of the Spring Garden Elementary School at North Boulevard and Linden Street in Bethlehem.

The other tract is a nearly rectangular 13.5-acre piece of land to the rear of the Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School in Bethlehem Township. The eastern boundary of this property is bordered by Hecktown Road.

D'Huy Engineering of Bethlehem has been retained to prepare surveys and plot plans at a cost not to exceed $9,740. Authorization also was given to seek subdivision and planning commission approval from the municipalities involved.